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Balancing Your Yard

By: Melinda Sperl

In theory, it seems so simple to keep your yard green and your flowers blooming.  But, If you have had to deal with the drought, chinch bugs, brown patch, scale and the varying other problems we have in abundance, then you know it is simply not that easy.

But a healthy yard really is easy if you stop over thinking it.  It does require that you change your thinking a little bit, well maybe a big bit, but it is not hard to do.  You will need patience though and lots of it.  Nature really has a good plan to grow plants and if we were to leave everything alone our plants would grow just fine.  Maybe not when or how we want but they would grow.

Balance is the key to a healthy yard.  An out of balanced soil is the most common problem with neighborhood yards mostly resulting from the indiscriminate use of synthetic and readily available chemicals. 

To get your yard back in balance the first step is to get a soil analysis.  After that, switch to organic fertilizers.   Simply talking, Organic gardening is using naturally occurring elements and applying them back to the earth as needed.  It will not happen overnight as it is a slow process to undo everything that was done before.  How easy it would be if we could just click an undo button.  Just give it time for Nature to correct the wrongs we have done.

What you will also get from organic gardening is your peace of mind when your children and pets run across your lawn knowing that it is a healthy lawn for them too.

Happy Gardening!

Melinda Sperl is the owner of Dream Landscape Design, Inc., a full service landscape company.  You can reach Melinda at Melinda@dreamlandscapedesign.com or www.dreamlandscapedesign.com